Loving God has always been a core part of my life and for a long time, I believed that my faith alone was supposed to “fix” everything. I was taught, directly and indirectly, that if I just prayed more, trusted more, and leaned into God harder, the pain from my past would disappear. So when I was still hurting… I felt confused, ashamed, and even a little distant from God.

In this video, I open up about what it looks like to love God deeply and still need therapy.

We’re talking about breaking away from the belief systems many of us grew up with the idea that seeking help means your faith is weak, or that trauma should just be “prayed away.” The truth is, unhealed wounds don’t disappear just because we ignore them. And choosing to face them doesn’t make you less faithful it makes you honest.

Therapy didn’t replace my relationsh ...